[Gloucs] No sound on Laptop

[Sean Keeney]

It's also worth downloading and running a recent live CD, especially a
multimedia one (like Amarok live) to see whether the problem has been
fixed generically in the newer distros.

I had a problem with my (very new) nvidia 6150 chipset whistling
through the left speaker. There were various modprobe fixes and other
incantations, but I waited instead of using them and now the latest
alsa release supports it fine. Everything on my mythtv client works
absolutely great now.

Oh, and hello everyone - i'm a new list subscriber in Cheltenham :)

sean

On 01/05/06, Lyndon Evans <ldeevans at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> You don't say what laptop and version of Linux, if you could provide
> a bit more info...
> I had a problem of no sound on my DELL Inspiron 1100, which has
> an Intel i810 something or other chipset, and after
> quite some time of searching the net, playing around with mixers,
> and debugging the source code, found that all I needed to do was
> enable the "external amplifier" option
> Obvious really ;oO.
> Regards,
> Lyndon
>
> Steve Greig <steve at stevespages.org.uk> wrote: Hi, I enjoyed the LUG on Friday. Thanks for putting it on. Unfortunately
> I live too far away to come to them regularly.
>
> I have just been doing google searches to find help with sorting out
> problems with my Linux lap top and have not managed to find a site which
> seems to be pitched at the right level.
>
> This particular problem is that I can't record sound: I open up 'sound
> recorder' plug in the microphone and start recording but when I play
> back I don't hear anything.  I have tried raising and unmuting all the
> volume controls (hoping that this won't be wrecking any other
> applications that may use them for example Skype).
>
> Over the year or so that I have been running Linux I have struggled to
> solve problems like this and still have not found a really good source
> of tutorials aimed at the sort of level I am at.
>
> As well as solving the specific problem I would be really interested if
> you had any suggestions for good sites for explaining Linux issues to
> people who have a very limited ability to use the command line like me
> and are a bit out of their depth but want to continue to use Linux.
>
> There are many things I don't do like connect directly to other people's
> computers; use video; record sound; print from the gimp; OCR scan etc
> etc simply because initial attempts to sort them out have failed (many
> things have worked!)
>
> I am really reluctant to go back to Windows or Mac but I really need to
> be pointed to some good information for my level of use if I am going to
> be able stick with Linux.
>
> Sorry for the length of this. Any ideas would be very much appreciated.
>
> Best wishes from Steve
>
>
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